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Chapter 5
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1
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Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and
behold our reproach. |
2
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Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses
to aliens. |
3
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We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. |
4
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We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold
unto us. |
5
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Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have
no rest. |
6
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We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the
Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. |
7
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Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne
their iniquities. |
8
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Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth
deliver us out of their hand. |
9
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We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because
of the sword of the wilderness. |
10
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Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible
famine. |
11
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They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the
cities of Judah. |
12
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Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders
were not honoured. |
13
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They took the young men to grind, and the children
fell under the wood. |
14
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The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men
from their musick. |
15
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The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned
into mourning. |
16
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The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that
we have sinned! |
17
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For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes
are dim. |
18
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Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate,
the foxes walk upon it. |
19
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Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation
to generation. |
20
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Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake
us so long time? |
21
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Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned;
renew our days as of old. |
22
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But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth
against us. |
